Cross - country solo canoeist completes journey in Winnipeg
to support protecting Manitoba wilderness
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CPAWS Manitoba Director Ron Thiessen and Jay Morrison
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After paddling 8000 km since beginning his journey in 2006, solo canoeist Jay Morrison was greeted in Winnipeg today by the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) Manitoba chapter at the banks of the Assiniboine River directly south of the Legislative Building to celebrate the completion of his cross-Canada adventure.
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Green Cottager Guide Launched!
For cottagers to continue fully enjoying their homes away from home, it's essential they take measures to ensure their environmental footprint is as small as possible. Collectively, taking positive steps based on informed choices will help keep our treasured sanctuaries clean and healthy for future generations of wildlife and people.
The guide is a comprehensive compilation that includes valuable information as well as useful tips on how you can become a green cottager. Download this handbook for reference, or print it to keep at the cottage, and share it with friends and neighbours. Consider printing the "Quick Tips Reference Guide," a condensed version of the handbook containing just the tips, to post on your cottage fridge.
We hope the Green Cottager Guide finds a useful place in your cottage and helps you do your part in keeping Manitoba's wilderness beautiful and well for all.
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Urgent! Take action to protect Fisher Bay
The Manitoba government is asking the public to comment on the future of the Fisher Bay park reserve. Please let them know what you think by sending a letter to Premier Doer about creating a provincial park that will permanently protect this spectacular natural area from industrial developments.
Read the special report – Ochiwasahow: The Fisher Bay Area
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Celebrating Little Limestone Lake
CPAWS is delighted to see Little Limestone Lake recently recognized by Canadian Geographic Travel magazine as having one of Canada’s best beaches. Little Limestone is a truly special and unique lake. In fact, it’s the biggest and best of its kind.
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On Monday, May 5th, a spectacle of portaging paddlers, campers, and adventurers repelled from the top of the Winnipeg’s Mountain Equipment Co-op building and invited passersby to add their voice to The Big Wild, a rising social movement that enables everyone who cares about Canada’s wilderness to voice their support for protecting it. The Big Wild’s vision is that Canada will protect at least half of our country’s wilderness from industrial development because scientists suggest that’s what is needed for our ecosystems to survive.
Please visit www.thebigwild.org
Check out the Winnipeg Big Wild event photo gallery
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Protect Manitoba's Big Wild - East Side Lake Winnipeg
The threatened woodland caribou’s home on the vast east side of Lake Winnipeg is a spectacular wilderness area, rich with rushing rivers, aboriginal culture, and abundant wildlife. The area’s intact boreal forests and potential for sustainable local economies is at imminent risk from short-sighted, forest-destructive developments. This trend will continue unless the Manitoba government makes both conservation and communities its top priorities.
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Manitoba Caribou Recovery Strategy
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Manitoba's Caribou Strategy Will Fail to Save Threatened Species
Protecting large habitat areas required for survival
The Manitoba government has the right goals to recover its threatened boreal woodland caribou, but its current strategy will not achieve the recovery of the species. The province needs to take immediate action to identify critical habitats and protect large areas of boreal forest.
Send a letter to Premier Gary Doer
Overcoming the shortcomings of the current strategy will require that the Manitoba government:
- Act in the short term to create new protected areas in woodland caribou range, including the First Nations land protection requests on the east side of lake Winnipeg.
- Identify (describe and map) the critical habitat of woodland caribou in Manitoba.
- Address the principal causes of loss of woodland caribou habitat in Manitoba: logging, mining, hydroelectric development.
- Live up to its commitment in the Woodland Caribou Conservation Strategy for Manitoba (2000) that "Habitat considered critical for the continued viability of a woodland caribou range will be protected by legal designation. No development will occur within these protected areas."
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Threatened Species Habitat Protected on East Side of Lake Winnipeg
Forestry operations off-limits in important woodland caribou habitat
The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) and forestry corporation Tembec have negotiated a minimum 50-year halt on logging in an area used
extensively by woodland caribou on the east side of Lake Winnipeg. Habitat
protection is key to maintaining populations of this threatened species,
as they are extremely sensitive to human developments.
"This is good news for caribou. CPAWS looks forward to our ongoing efforts
with Tembec to increase protections for caribou," stated Ron Thiessen,
Executive Director of the CPAWS Manitoba chapter. "Healthy boreal forests
are critical to caribou survival."
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Healthy east side forests best for all
CPAWS commends our provincial government and Manitoba Hydro for their commitments to keep the proposed major hydro corridor away from the intact boreal forest on the east side of Lake Winnipeg.
Upholding the region's ecological integrity is critical to maintaining traditional activities for local communities as well as emerging sustainable economic opportunities such as eco and cultural tourism - two of the fastest growing industries in the world. Keeping Manitoba's east side forests healthy and whole is also paramount to the survival of the area's majestic and threatened woodland caribou.
The east side of Lake Winnipeg is part of the world's largest section of boreal forest. By securing huge swaths of the boreal from industrial developments, we protect the ecological services we all require. The boreal forest is Earth's largest source of fresh water, and the northern lungs of the planet. It also stores tons of carbon, which helps slow down climate change.
Working with local communities and all Manitobans to establish a large, protected areas network in the vast east side wilderness will be a positive step forward for future generations of wildlife and people. The Manitoba government can show us how strong its commitment is to a World Heritage Site in the region by immediately granting First Nations land protection requests of almost 2 million hectares - an area 50 times the size of Winnipeg.
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CPAWS is Canada's grassroots voice for wilderness, working to preserve our nation's natural landscapes. We accomplish this by helping to establish new parks and protected areas, by working to ensure that governments put nature first in park management, and by involving Canadians in parks and wilderness protection issues.
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